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landscape, they reached Sandy Hook, and tokens of 

 a gathering storm overclouded the heavens. 



On the 7th of June the Advance reached New- 

 foundland. Here the adventurers obtained their 

 first view of an iceberg. A vast mass, " twice the 

 size of Girard College," of the purest white, loomed 

 up before their vision, and came sailing slowly and 

 majestically downward from the interior realms of 

 that frozen and awful zone which they were them- 

 selves approaching. After this period the novelty of 

 these colossal masses gradually wore away, and they 

 became quite familiar, but not always quite harm- 

 less, though generally very grand and impressive. 

 On the 20th the Advance made the coast near the 

 towering peak called Sukkertoppen, which is one of 

 the great landmarks of that rugged region. Thence 

 they proceeded to the Crown Prince Islands, which 

 had been appointed as the place where the Rescue 

 should again join the Advance. This spot is a 

 small settlement inhabited by Esquimaux, who 

 acknowledge the supremacy of Denmark. The 

 Danes use it as a fishing-station ; and all the inhabit- 

 ants depend for their subsistence entirely upon the 

 precarious produce of their nets. 



On the 27th Dr. Kane was sent by the com- 

 mander, with a crew of five men, to the settlement 

 of Lievely, for the purpose of obtaining information 



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